Essays and Reports

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Essays and Reports, Vol. 2, 1966

• What in the World? Presidential Address
  Aug. R. Suelflow
• New Light on Passavant and His Era
  Robert H. Fischer
• Diversified Responsibilities: Common Goals
  W. Kaye Lamb
• Some Legal Implications on the Use of Historical Manuscripts
  Aug. R. Suelflow
• Frederick H. Knubel: Advocate of Sound Ecumenical Principles
  Dorris A. Flesner
• Canadian Lutheranism -- Unique?
  Wolf H. Heick
• Canadian Laws with Respect to Historical Documents and Records
  James Breithaupt
• Baptismal Records and Legal Aspects of Their Use
  Helen M. Knubel
• Lutheran Archives, Scholars and Library Automation
  Keltah T. Narbut

Essays and Reports, Vol. 3, 1968

• Introduction to the First Lutheran Historiographical Consultation in America
  Aug. R. Suelflow
• American Lutheran Historiography
  Erich Heintzen
• Thoughts on American Lutheran Historiography
  Aug. R. Suelflow
• Our Libraries and Historical Research
  Joel W. Lundeen
• Publishing Church History -- Problems and Prospects
  Helmut Lehman
• History on the Hoof
  A. R. Kretzmann
• Lutherans in the Secular City
  Roy A. Suelflow
• Sources and Narratives
  Willard Allbeck
• Out of the Dust Bins
  Helen Knubel

Essays and Reports, Vol. 4, 1970

• The Concept of Baptism among Colonial Pennsylvania German Lutheran and Reformed Church People
  Frederick S. Weiser
• The American General Synod and World Lutheranism: Some Vignettes on the Occasion of the General Synod's 150th Anniversary
  E. Theodore Bachmann
• The Conciliar Spirit in Lutheranism
  John A. Constable
• Henry Eyster Jacobs as Church Historian
  Abdel Ross Wentz

Essays and Reports, Vol. 5, 1972

• The Centennial of Danish Lutheranism in America
  Enok Mortensen
• History in Theological Education
  William Weiblen
• The Confessional Principles of the General Council, the General Synod, and the United Synod of the South in Seeking Lutheran Unity
  Joseph L. Anderson
• Lutheran Confessionalism in the Early Synodical Conference
  Roy A. Suelflow
• Wilhelm Loehe and Liturgical Renewal
  James L. Schaaf
• Historiography and Lutheran Biography
  Eugene L. Fevold
• Notes on the History of the Synodical Conference
  Carl S. Meyer
• The Keepers of the Flame
  Bernard J. Holm

Essays and Reports, Vol. 6, 1974

• Christian Streit, Revolutionary War Chaplain
  Alton R. Koenning
• John Bachman: An Historical Vignette
  Raymond M. Bost
• A Jacobs Trilogy
  Henry Eyster Horn
• Dr. Abdel Ross Wentz: American Lutheran Champion of Ecumenism
  Dorris A. Flesner
• Wisconsin's TheologicalConfessional History Viewed Especially in the Light of Its Fellowship Principles and Practices
  E. C. Fredrich
• Capital University: 125 Years
  David B. Owens
• Theological and Higher Education at Springfield, Illinois
  Lorman M. Petersen
• Establishing a MultiMedia Center
  Alfred & Velma Buls

Essays and Reports, Vol. 7, 1976

• Who Was John Hanson?
  Alan C. Freed
• Gettysburg, Seminary -- 150 Years
  J. Russell Hale
• The American Revolution in Henry Melchior Muhlenberg's Experience
  Helmut T. Lehman
• A Bicentennial Look at American Ideology
  Oliver K. Olson
• Bodo Otto: Revolutionary Surgeon and Lutheran
  David L. Scheidt
• Researching (Lutheran) Synodical Histories
  Roy A. Suelflow
• A Bicentennial Call to Action
  Aug. R. Suelflow
• The United Empire Loyalists and Immigration to Canada
  Norman J. Threinen
• Vignettes of the John Conrad Weiser Family
  Frederick S. Weiser
• Biographical Resources
  Jane Wilde
• Lutheran Music in Colonial America
  Edward C. Wolf
• How Do I Research Congregational Records
  Walter C. Daib
• Possible Models for a Lutheran Biographical Dictionary
  Eugene L. Fevold
• On Preparing an Annotated Bibliography of Colonial Lutheranism
  W. Richard Fritz
• Oral History
  Alice Kendrick
• Historiographical Ideas
  Aug. R. Suelflow
• Computer History
  Robert C. Wiederaenders

Essays and Reports, Vol. 8, 1978

• G. D. Bernheim, Historiographer of Southern Lutheranism
  William R. Fritz
• Georg Sverdrup: A Theologian “in League with the Future”
  James S. Hamre
• The Confluences of Our Conference
  Aug. R. Suelflow
• Franz August Otto Pieper: Orthodoxist or Confessionalist?
  Roy A. Suelflow
• Paul Henkel, Pioneer Lutheran Missionary
  Richard H. Baur
• The Galesburg Rule: Occasion for Theological Conflict and Clarification in Nineteenth Century American Lutheranism
  Donald L. Huber
• Wartburg Seminary through 125 Years
  Robert C. Wiederaenders
• Questions on Research
  James Albers
• Developing a Publicational Program
  Edward C. Fredrich
• Workshop on a Proposed Commission on the Development of Resources
  Donald L. Huber

Essays and Reports, Vol. 9, 1980

• One Hundred and Fifty Years of Theological Education in Ohio: Hamma, ELTS, Trinity, 1830-1980
  Donald L. Huber
• The Beginning of Lutheran Theological Education in Illinois: Illinois State University
  Dorris A. Flesner
• Immigrant Lutheran Theological Education in Nineteenth Century America
  Christa Ressmeyer Klein
• A Seminary for Lutherans in the South
  Raymond Morris Bost
• A Question of Earnestness: American Lutheran Missions and Theological Education in Alabama's “Black Belt”
  Milton C. Sernett
• Matthias Loy: Theological Educator
  Charles George Fry
• Perspectives on the History of Women in the Lutheran Church -- Missouri Synod during the Nineteenth Century
  James W. Albers

Essays and Reports, Vol. 10, 1982

• Colonial Lutherans in a Pluralistic Culture
  Charles H. Glatfelter
• Lutheran Abolitionism in New York State: A Problem in Historical Explication
  Milton C. Sernett
• Lutheran Schools in America
  Jon Diefenthaler
• American Catholicism and American Lutheranism: Toward a Comparative Perspective
  Mel Piehl
• Luther in Modern Times, Luther in America, Reformation History since Philip Schaff
  Lewis W. Spitz
• Lutheran Adjustments to a Pluralistic Society: A Study of Lutheran Students at Harvard
  Henry E. Horn
• Lutherans and the New Deal: The Missouri Synod as a Case Study
  Dean Kohlhoff
• Roman Catholic and Lutheran Fraternal Insurance Societies: Responses to Ethnic and Religious Pluralism
  James W. Albers
• Lutheran Confessionalism
  Donald L. Huber
• Confessional Subscription
  Aug. R. Suelflow
• Regional Repositories
  Robert C. Wiederaenders
• The Role of the Regional Repository
  Milton Nesvig
• Archives and Records Management in the New Lutheran Church
  John E. Peterson
• The Role of a Regional Repository in American Lutheranism
  Aug. R. Suelflow

Essays and Reports, Vol. 11, 1984

• Contributions of the Swedes to Lutheranism in the Upper Midwest
  Emeroy Johnson
• German Lutherans in Minnesota: Glimpses into the Americanization of a City Parish, 1890-1940
  Paul Marschke
• HAL -- The Automated Librarian or How the Computer Has Taken over the Library
  Norman G. Wente
• The Beginnings of English Lutheranism in the Upper Midwest
  Dorris A. Flesner
• Foundations of the Missouri System of Higher Education
  Richard Solberg
• The Development of NorwegianAmerican Lutheranism in the Upper Midwest
  Eugene L. Fevold
• Living History Recalled with Sight and Sound
  Alice M. Kendrick
• Computerizing Our Bibliography
  Duncan Brockway

Essays and Reports, Vol. 12, 1986
“Lutherans on the Pacific Rim”

• Lutheranism in the Pacific Perimeter
  E. Theodore Bachmann
• The Pioneer Lutheran Pastor in Russian Alaska -- Uno Cygnaeus
  Toivo Harjunpaa
• WELS Mission Enterprises among the Apaches
  Edward Fredrich
• The Lutheran and the American West: Frontier, Destiny, Plurality and Identity
  Todd Nichol
• Lutheran Educational Institutions on the West Coast
  Philip Nordquist
• Jacob M. Buehler, West Coast Pioneer
  Karl Wyneken
• Panel Discussion: Teaching Lutheran History
  James Albers, Ray F. Kibler, Christa Klein, John Wohlrabe Jr.

Essays and Reports, Vol. 13, 1988
“American Lutheranism: Crisis in Historical Consciousness?”

• “A Southeastern District Scrapbook, 1939-1989: In Pursuit of God's Mission” -- A Case Study in Popular Lutheran Historical Education
  Jon Diefenthaler
• Sunday in Indiana Lutheran Churches
  Edwin L. Becker
• John Gottlieb Morris and Nineteenth Century Lutheran Historical Consciousness
  Michael J. Kurtz
• American Lutheran Historiography: A Regionalist Approach
  Richard W. Dishno
• A ThreeLens Approach to American Lutheran History: Considerations of Gender, Ethnicity and Congregation
  L. De Ane Lagerquist
• History: Drudgery or Fun?
  Theodore J. Kleinhans
• Indiana Lutherans at the Nineteenth Century Crossroads
  Rudolph F. Rehmer
• Hannover Influence in Ohio Lutheranism
  Louis Voigt
• Panel: Historical Self-Consciousness within American Denominations
  Introduction
  Christa Klein
• American Lutheran Studies: A Career as Historian to 1948
  E. Theodore Bachmann
• American Presbyterians: The State of Historical Self-Consciousness
  James H. Smylie
• The Roman Catholic Church in the United States: The State of Historical Study
  James Hennesey
• A Baptist Response
  Winthrop Hudson
• Historical Studies in the Southern Baptist Convention
  Bill Leonard
• Historical Study in Methodism
  Frederick A. Norwood
• Mennonite Historical Studies
  Albert N. Keim

Essays and Reports, Vol. 14, 1990
“Lutheranism and Pietism”

• The Piety of the Orthodox in 17th Century Postille Literature
  Craig J. Westendorf
• Erik Ludvigsen Pontoppidan and the American Influence of His Catechism
  James B. Olson
• Henry Melchior Muhlenberg's Relation to the Ongoing Pietist Tradition
  Robert F. Scholz
• John George Schmucker and the Roots of His Spirituality
  James Lawton Haney
• Theological Authority in S. S. Schmucker and C. Porterfield Krauth
  Verlyn O. Smith
• Purity of Heart and Altar: Understandings of the Sacrament of the Altar in S. S. Schmucker and C. P. Krauth
  Gilson A. C. Waldkoenig
• Samuel Sprecher as Theologian and Churchman
  Ray F. Kibler III
• Panel Discussion: “Pietism at the Turn into the Twenty-first Century”
  Frederick K. Wentz, James W. Albers, Christa Klein
• Forum: “The State of American Lutheran History in American Lutheran Theological Education”
  Christa Klein, Richard W. Dishno, James W. Albers
• Gettysburg Seminary and College during the Battle of Gettysburg
  Charles H. Glatfelter
• Forum: “Archival Developments”
  Elisabeth Wittman, Aug. R. Suelflow, Norman Threinen

Essays and Reports, Vol. 15, 1992
“Missionary to America: The History of Lutheran Outreach to Americans”

• “Ecclesia Plantanda”: The Uncertain Muhlenberg Legacy and the New York Experience
  Robert F.Scholz
• With Muhlenberg in New Jersey
  E. Theodore Bachmann
• O Muhlenberg
  E. Theodore Bachmann
• Interest in the Western Field: Two Approaches to Mission Work in 19th Century Indiana
  Lawrence Rast Jr.
• Paul August Baumgart
  James L. Schaaf
• Wyneken and 19th Century German Lutheranism
  Norman J. Threinen
• A Confessional Lutheran Encounters American Religion: The Case of Friedrich Conrad Dietrich Wyneken
  David A. Gustafson
• The Spirituality of Lutheran Women's Missionary Societies, 1880-1930
  Betty A. DeBerg
• The Major Events in the Evangelizing of Black People within the Lutheran Church in the New World
  Jeff Johnson
• “A Spiritual Wayside Inn”: Urban Missionary Work in the New South, 1900-1920
  Susan Wilds McArver
• The Impact of Wyneken's Notruf
  Rudolph F. Rehmer
• From Poland to Scranton: Sattelmeier and His Mission to Polish Immigrants
  Robert W. DeLong
• Chicago's Place in 19th Century American Lutheranism
  Richard Dishno
• The Beginning of the LHC
  Robert C. Wiederaenders
• Swedish-American Lutherans and Mission
  Mark A. Grandquist
• The History of WELS Home Missions
  Robert C. Hartman
• Quodlibet: Fiche or CD-ROM?
  John N. Dickmeyer
• Toward a Comprehensive Bibliography of Lutheranism in America
  Robert E. Smith

Essays and Reports, Vol. 16, 1994
“Lutheranism ... with a Southern Accent”

• The Henkels: A Family and a Church through Six Decades and More
  L. DeAne Lagerquist
• Diary of Paul Henkel, 1802 and 1803
  Richard H. Baur
• Rye Bread and Limburger Cheese: Clues to North Carolina German Heritage
  Carolyn Hoover Sung
• A Southern Lutheran Trinity: Farm, Family and Faith in Old Lincoln County, North Carolina, 1789-1889
  Gary Richard Freeze
• Jacob Stirewalt and the Doctrine of Ministry
  Robert M. Calhoon
• Cultivating the Holy Religion of Jesus: The Ministry and Ministries according to David Henkel and the Tennessee Synod
  Lawrence R. Rast Jr.
• Schmucker's Benevolence, from Republican Ideals to Civil War Realities
  Nancy Koester
• Ante-Bellum Lutheranism in the Black Belt: John P. Margart, 1816 to 1900
  W. Richard Fritz
• Abolition and Confessionalism in “Our Southern Zion”: The Civil War and Southern Lutheran Identity
  Russell C. Kleckley
• Southern Lutherans and the Common Service
  Mark W. Oldenburg
• “Earnest Women” and “Manly Christians”: The Rise of the Lay Auxiliaries in the United Synod in the South, 1886-1918
  Susan Wilds McArver
• Some Southerners in the Formation of the ULCA
  E. Theodore Bachmann
• A Minority within a Minority: Scandinavian Lutheans in the Southeast
  Mark A. Granquist
• Contemporary Lutheranism in the South
  Carl F. W. Ficken

Essays and Reports, Vol. 17, 1996
“Interpreting Lutheran History”

• J.H.C. Helmuth: An Interpretation of Lutheranism in the Early Republic
  A. Gregg Roeber
• Lutheran Hymnals in America: God’s Song in a New Land
  Carl Schalk
• Walther and His Perception of Other Lutherans
  August R. Suelflow
• Charles Porterfield Krauth’s Concept of Pulpit and Altar Fellowship: A Challenge to Lutheran Disunity
  David Gustafson
• “Distinguish the Times, and the Scriptures Will Harmonize”: History, Science and Chiliasm according to Gustav Seyffarth and Joseph Seiss
  Russell Kleckley
• August Weenaas: A Seminary President among Norwegian Immigrants Interprets the Nineteenth Century American Lutheran Scene
  James Hamre
• Recent Trends in Denominational Historiography and Implications for American Lutheran Scholars
  Susan McArver
• Historiography and Uses of History in The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod
  Mary Todd
• J.H.W. Stuckenberg and Lutheranism in America
  Mark Granquist
• Lutheranism in the Twenties: Youthful Perspectives
  Jon Pahl
• American Lutheran Opinion Makers and the Crisis of German Protestantism under Hitler
  Ronald Webster

Essays and Reports, Vol. 18, 1998
"Eastern Lutheranism and the National Church—Influence and Foil"

• Church Relations in Colonial Albany, New York: A Lutheran Perspective
  Peter R. Christoph
• A Look at H. M. Muhlenberg, the Pennsylvania Ministerium and the Development of Lutheranism in the Northeast
  George E. Handley
• Built on a Fracture: Conflict in Swedish Lutheran Congregations
  Maria Erling
• Missouri in the Northeast: Hostile Outpost or Cutting Edge
  Marvin A.Huggins
• Notes on the Influence of Edwardsean Millennialism in Early American Lutheranism: The Case of John C. Kunze
  Mark N. Wilhelm
• Lutheran Revivalism in Upstate New York: A New Perspective
  Jeffrey P. Hering
• Lutherans, Antinomians and the Pastoral Office in Early North America
  A.G. Roeber
• The Priesthood of Baptized Believers and the Office of the Ministry in Eastern Lutheranism from Muhlenberg's Day to Ours
  John Reumann
• A Beautiful and Right Praxis: The Ecclesiology of the Common Service
  Michael G. L. Church
• The General Synod's 'Reception' of the Common Service
  Mark Oldenburg
• My Fair Chasuble: Eastern Lutheran Influence upon the Liturgy
  Jeffrey Zetto
• Passavant in the Northeast
  Robert H. Fischer
• The Founding and Early Development of the Wartburg Orphans' Farm School in Its Ecclesial Setting
  Glenn C. Stone
• Seafarers and International House: An Evolution of Service
  Barbara Kortrey
• Archivists and Historians: Toward a More Productive Partnership
  Paul A. Daniels
• The Knubel Archives of Cooperative Lutheranism
  Ellen D. Swain
• Students Among the Archives: A Case Study
  Susan Wilds McArver
• 'In the News': Lutheranism and the Lutheran News Bureau
  Charles Austin
• One Foot in Show Business: Lutheran Films 1952-1987
  Robert E. A. Lee
• The New York Role in the Missouri War
  John R. Hannah
• Lutherans and Ecumenism: The General Synod Tradition into the Twenty-First Century
  Frederick K. Wentz
• Conrad Bergendoff and Eastern Lutheranism
  Mark Granquist

Essays and Reports, Vol. 19, 2000
"Lutherans in America—A Twentieth Century Retrospective"

• Preface
  Mary Todd
• Seeking Fruitfulness — Elsie Singmaster Lewars: Victorian Women in Ministry
  Susan Hill
• Justifiable War or an Offense to the Conscience? Lutheran Responses to the Vietnam War, 1964–1975
  David E. Settje
• Being Good Amricans and Better Lutherans: Synodical Conference Lutherans and the Military Chaplaincy
  Mark Braun
• Wauwatosa Titan: The Life, Contributions and Lasting Legacy of John Philipp Koehler
  Joel L. Pless
• "A Beam of Light" — The Controversy Surrounding Andrew Schulze's My Neighbor of Another Color
  Kathryn Galchutt
• Byron Nelson and American Lutheran Attitudes toward Evolution
  Mark Granquist
• "Tossed Headlong into Deep Waters" — Stewart Winfield Herman Jr.
  Stephen Herr and Matthew Riegel
• The Lutheran Historical Enterprise in the Twentieth Century
  James W. Albers
• Ecumenical and Global Concerns of the LHC
  David L. Lindberg

Essays and Reports, Vol. 20, 2002
Re-examining Conflict and Cooperation: Implications for Current Understandings of American Lutheranism

• Preface
  Susan W. McArver
• The Ecumenical Ministry of Robert J. Miller (1758-1834)
  William P. McDonald
  
• "Why Did He Do It?" S. S. Schmucker and the Definite Platform
  Cheryl M. Peterson
  
• Learning to See, Learning to Answer: Women and Lutheran Higher Education
  L. DeAne Lagerquist
  
• The Contest for the West: Conflict and Cooperation between the General Synod and the General Council in Home Mission Efforts on the Pacific Coast
  Richard O. Johnson
  
• The Protes'tant Controversy and Its Impact
  Mark Braun
  
• Robert E. Lee nd a Battle for Atlanta: A Lutheran Pastor Advances Civil Rights
  Carl Ficken
  
• The Lutheran Left
  Maria Erling
  
• Lutherans, Gender and Foreign Policy
  David E. Settje
  
• Documenting the Edge
  Paul Daniels

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